Stellarphant – teacher resources

Teaching Notes

Heaps of ideas for discussion and links to curriculum.
Download the teaching notes (pdf)

Behind-the-scenes blog posts

Head to my blog for all the news and behind-the-scenes posts related to Stellarphant.

Read a free sample

Read a bit before you buy the book. Also great for using to read the start of the book to a class.
View the sample chapter here (pdf)

Read-aloud on Story Box Library

Listen to Stellarphant being read out by actor Jillian Nguyen.

See a preview here:

Book Trailer

High-resolution cover image

Download now

Videos

I’ve recorded a bunch of short videos to tell you more about those animals.

Feel free to share these videos and use them in the classroom!

Here’s the playlist – new videos uploading weekly, 11 in total.

Podcast

Animals in Space
What the Duck?! podcast
with Dr Ann Jones

It was a real pleasure to be able to speak with Ann about the research I did for my picture book Stellarphant. I learned so many weird and wonderful stories about the true history of animals in space, and I got to share some of those tales on the podcast.

FREE Activities

How to draw Stella from Stellarphant

A free video tutorial showing you how to draw Stella.

Draw your own animal astronaut portrait

download pdf

Extension idea:

Create a space background for your astronaut using black card.

I’ve seen classrooms decorate the background using iridescent/metallic coloured pencils, posca paint pens, even multi-coloured plasticine!

You could even get a bit messy and put some diluted white paint into a spray bottle and create a beautiful starfield.

Paper plate elephant mask

download pdf

Spacewalk 3D illustration

download pdf (2 pages)
This fantastic and easy activity was thought up by the wonderful librarian Lisa Black!

Colouring-in sheets

Front cover – download pdf

Capsule – download pdf

Spacewalk – download pdf

Spectators – download pdf

More activity ideas

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Thanks to Kerry and Lynette from the podcast ‘With This Book You Can‘, for centering their very first episode around Stellarphant!

Kerry and Lynette are both experienced teacher librarians, and they discuss how they would use Stellarphant in the classroom. You can listen to the 10min episode below.